On the scalability of particle swarm optimisation

Sébastien Piccand, Michael O'Neill, Jacqueline Walker

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Abstract

Particle swarm has proven to be competitive to other evolutionary algorithms in the field of optimization, and in many cases enables a faster convergence to the ideal solution. However, like any optimization algorithm it seems to have difficulties handling optimization problems of high dimension. Here we first show that dimensionality is really a problem for the classical particle swarm algorithms. We then show that increasing the swarm size can be necessary to handle problem of high dimensions but is not enough. We also show that the issue of scalability occurs more quickly on some functions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008
Pages2505-2512
Number of pages8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 1 Jun 20086 Jun 2008

Publication series

Name2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Conference

Conference2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period1/06/086/06/08

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